then the democrats should be screaming, jim. because if the money -- the money before didn't make a dent in the deficit, this deal while good for america may not -- is going to by default make less of an impact. >> all they really wanted to do was make sure they stuck to their campaign promise they were going to raise tax on the upper class. and that's fine. there's no meaningful reduction to the deficit until we deal with medicare and defense. >> we've got to go. happy new year, gentlemen. >> you too. >> let's bring in eamon now. mitch mcconnell surprising at least us coming out saying that. looks like they're close to a deal. good news? >> absolutely good news. definitely an indication that mitch mcconnell thinks as he said they are very, very close. now, interesting about mcconnell's comments. he's saying he thinks they are very close or graed on the tax piece of this deal. and maybe they should take that and come back for the spending piece later. that's going to be an interesting decoupling of what we thought was going to b